Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Barks Tribute Cover Mock-Ups

Now, enjoy these, from the same magazine from which I got "From Egg to Duck."

The text in the first image says "in 2001, illustration big-shot Mezzo celebrated Carl Barks' centennial with a series of fake comic book covers depicting Donald and the other characters who have made Duckburg so great." Google has not been helpful to me in figuring out who or what this "Mezzo" is, but I badly want to own prints of a few of these--specifically, Magica in the lower left, and Gyro (though I wouldn't be picky). The one with the Beagle Boys is the stuff of nightmares. Seriously, they are fucking burying Scrooge alive while Donald obliviously sleeps on. Jeez!

This reminds me -- a bit -- of the Golden Age DC and Marvel cover parodies that Don Rosa brings with him to conventions to sign for folks. These efforts are a touch weirder, though. Are those ZOMBIE Beagle Boys? And what the heck happened to the pumpkin-Nephew's BODY in the Halloween scene?

Hey, I gotta be me! Actually, when I started this blog, I was feeling an acute sense of isolation as a duck fan--I didn't really expect anyone to actually read my blather. When I actually accrued a modest readership, I did start to feel a little self-conscious about some of the language and occasional political content--but hey, people started reading it in spite (or because?) of these things, and I feel as though engaging in self-censorship for fear of causing offense would make it generally less interesting.

There's many of this drawings in this book : http://www.editionsmosquito.com/ouvrage.php?id=56 and a few in this one too : http://www.editionsmosquito.com/ouvrage.php?id=85I'm sure you'll be pleased, Mezzo is a great artist.This website shows some of this drawings : http://picsouman.free.fr/mezzo/delires.htmThere used to be some prints but very few. Quite complicated about the rights because it's about Disney characters